Very smart mouse, help please!!!

[punk-a-doodle]

I'd probably use an electric shock trap myself. House mice run along walls, so this is usually the ideal place for traps. There are other species of mice and rodents (sure it is a mouse?) that have different habits and different diets though.

 

[DianaMallory]

I find the grey plastic ones work best, I like the Tomcat brand. I use peanut butter, and also put a little peanut butter underneath the tongue plate, not just on top of it.

These are the best! load them with peanut butter and tell the mouse good bye! They make rat traps like that to!

 

[birdymama]

My dad used to use the humane traps because in Oz some species of rodent are protected so we look it up. If not we just drown them or gas them. Nobody said you have to keep it. An oil trap just sounds horrible. And feeding pinkies to birds sounds a bit sadistic.

Don't mind the electricity idea.. but sticky traps... What so they can starve to death? Or do you just put them in the freezer for the cold cold sleep?

 

[appps]

I've just done the sticky traps and you need a strong stomach. I was desperate as we had a rat had got inside somehow and had house guests coming and nothing else was catching it.

What we did was make a little cardboard tunnel next to the skirting boards where its travel path was so when it went through it had to walk on it. Caught him but then came the what next. The instructions just say throw the whole thing in the bin but that seems horribly cruel so hubby dispatched it with a hammer first. Ewww eww ewww

 

[missnu01]

This is weird but my husband "made" some super effective sticky traps out of cardboard and molasses...the mice come to eat the molasses, but they get stuck in it...you need some Blackstrap molasses, at least that is what we used...as long as your house isn't too hot, or too cold it will catch them...

 

[missnu01]

My dad used to use the humane traps because in Oz some species of rodent are protected so we look it up. If not we just drown them or gas them. Nobody said you have to keep it. An oil trap just sounds horrible. And feeding pinkies to birds sounds a bit sadistic.

Don't mind the electricity idea.. but sticky traps... What so they can starve to death? Or do you just put them in the freezer for the cold cold sleep?

I drown any that get stuck to the sticky traps...it only takes a couple of seconds, and it's better than listening to them squeal stuck to the traps.

 

[Hollow Point]

Place a 5 gallon bucket about 1/2 full of water in the middle of the floor, suspend a piece of smelly bait in the center just below the rim and build a ramp up to the edge of the bucket and extend it over the water a bit. You can get a lot fancier if you have time.
I used to do this as a kid with great success... google "bucket mouse trap" for some design ideas... it's cheap and it really works.

As a kid we would put about a quart of dog food in a 5gal bucket, no water then would put a stick to the edge of the bucket as a ramp and place in the shed. Next day there would be four or five mice hopping around the bucket. Bring it to the cat who would swoop them out the buckt and eat. Cleaned out the whole mouse population from in there.

 

[justdeb]

I had tried everything and I had very little success until, I bought a rat zapper. I love it! I thought we had 10 or 15 rats on our patio, eating any left over dog kibble. The first night I dropped 11 rats into the trash (no mess no fuss)! I simply went out every commercial and dumped the rat. It only electrocutes one and then must be emptied for the next victim. I've watched others try to crawl over the dead one to get in for dog food, but they can't. Once you dump the dead one, the next rat (or mouse) can go in for a piece of kibble and then the light comes on and you dump that one. I got rid of over 60 (!!!) in the first 2 weeks (yes, the property is rural). It is an amazing invention and worth every dollar. Amazon is the cheapest place to get one.​